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Williams-Sonoma Star Wars Cooking Supplies

I stopped at the Williams-Sonoma at the Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh 2 weekends ago and found a bunch of really cool Star Wars supplies. I ended up buying 2 sets of cookie cutters, a Darth Vader spatula, a set of 3 pancake molds, and a lunchbox with 2 sandwich cutters in it. The lunchbox we haven’t used yet; my son eats school lunch and I like to bring an insulated lunch bag with giant Pyrex containers inside, which wouldn’t fit in a lunch box anyway. I don’t suppose we’ll get much use out of the lunchbox, but it’s still cute. The sandwich cutters are in the shape of a tie fighter and Millenium Falcon. My son was impressed the first time I made his sandwich with it, but it made for a lot of extra sandwich “scraps” he wouldn’t eat.

It was the cookie cutters I was the most impressed with. I didn’t realize until I got them home that they actually press designs into the cookies as well as cut them out in different shapes. I bought both of the sets they had there, so now I have 8 cookie cutters total. The cookie cutters also come with a recipe:

Star Wars Cookies

2 1/2 c. flour

1/2 tsp. salt

3/4 c. butter (12 tbsp.)

1 c. sugar

1 egg

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

Basically follows the same directions as most cookie recipes; mix the sugar and butter first, then the egg and vanilla, then the sifted dry ingredients. They suggest chilling the dough 2 hours to 2 days, rolling it out, and baking the cookies at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes.

I didn’t like that there was no rising agent included, so I used a similar recipe that uses 1 tsp. of baking powder as well. I bake my cookies at 400 degrees for 7 minutes and I like the results I get. Perhaps someday I’ll follow their recipe exactly, but I was really happy with the way my cookies turned out.

Despite the fact that my cookies did rise more than their recipe would have, all the cookies maintained their pressed designs. They were tasty and beautiful. My only complaint is that the Death Star makes for a very large cookie, bigger than I normally like. The Yoda was more my size.

I think I’m most happy with the cookie molds, and I would recommend buying these over the other Star Wars items that Williams-Sonoma was selling. I think they’d be even cooler if I would have taken the time to ice them along their lines to make them colorful and sweet.